Friday, February 24, 2012

Wing for a Georgian Federal farm house


This renovated and new wing belongs to the house for which I recreated a new entrance.
See my posts about the 1795 Federal entrance for pictures of the main house which so beautifully uses the Golden Section for its elevations.

Before I was hired to fix the front door, the family asked me to design garage and storage space and to facilitate repair to the shed/family room.

From the left: existing kitchen with slider, renovated shed, new storage and garage, seen from the east.


The views of the shed are from the west.


The shed, a workshop, c. 1830, had been moved against the house
in the 1950's. It had been an awkward, inadequate garage before it became the family room.
The shed was not square or level. Every piece of the new wing which connected to it needed to be scribed. There had to be 'wiggle room' in the new wing's plans, elevations and framing so it could fit against the shed, be water tight, structurally sound and meet code.

The work could not have been done successfully without an excellent restoration contractor who liked working with me. He had to interpret and refine my drawings. Obviously, he did so beautifully.
Thanks, John.

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